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History
| 2022 |
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Rajarshi Chakrabarti joins MitoCare as tenure-track Assistant Professor. His lab will focus on cytoskeleton regulation of mitochondrial function in health and disease. |
| 2021 |
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Marco Tigano joins the MitoCare Center as tenure-track Assistant Professor. His lab will focus on mitochondrial stress signaling and innate immunity. |
| The 3D Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) arrives at the MitoCare Center through the support of generous donations. |
| 2019 |
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| The 1st "MitoCircle Summer Marathon Symposium" is organized at MitoCare. Marco Tigano is among the invited speakers. |
| 2015 |
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The bi-weekly MitoCircle Journal Club (MCJC) kicks off, organized by György Csordás. |
| 2014 |
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MitoCare faculty officially moves to the MitoCare Suite in the renovated 5th floor of the Jefferson Alumni Hall. |
| 2013 |
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The MitoCare Center for Mitochondrial Imaging Research and Diagnostics is officially formed. |
| 2012 |
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Dean Mark Tykocinski assigns programmatic space for the mitochondrial Program. |
| "Mitochondria & Metabolism" Symposium honoring Jan Hoek's 70th birthday with 130+ attendees. |
| The first uniporter mouse model arrives (MICU1 fl/fl mouse) |
| 2010 |
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Erin L. Seifert joins Thomas Jefferson as the 1st tenure-track faculty member specifically recruited to strengthen mitochondrial metabolism research. Erin Seifert starts the in vivo research efforts by generating the first mouse models. |
| 2009 |
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Dean Mark Tykocinski initiates Programmatic Research strategy at Jefferson. |
| GO Grant and other Programmatic Research Grants are awarded to faculty members. |
| The MitoCircle Seminar Series kicks off to bring together mitochondriacs of the Tri-State area. |
| The Chair of Pathology, Dr. Steve Peiper offers his support toward strengthening the faculty. |
| 2003 |
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György Csordás starts his laboratory driven by an interest in the study of excitation-metabolism coupling in the heart. |
| Research collaborations focused on mitochondrial biology are streghthened by synergisms among the faculty members. |
| 1998 |
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The Imaging Facility is inaugurated with the arrival of one of the first BioRad Confocal & Multiphoton microscopes. |
| 1997 |
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György Csordás starts his post-doctoral fellowship with György Hajnóczky studying ER-mitochondria calcium signaling. |
| 1996 |
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György Hajnóczky starts his independent laboratory with focus on mitochondrial signaling and dynamics. |
| 1986 - 1992 |
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Joannes B. Hoek and Suresh K. Joseph bring vast bioenergetics expertise to Jefferson. |
| György Hajnóczky starts his post-doctoral fellowship with Andrew P. Thomas studying the coupling of calcium oscillations with mitochondrial metabolisms using single cell imaging. |